Quote Originally Posted by Mirage View Post
I find it hard to believe that the lack of full armor is why you didn't care for the newer FF games. After all, FF13 gives you 5 equipment slots, just like FF4 and FF5. The only difference is that they're not locked to a specific body part.
Well, accessories are different than armor. Accessories are typically have one random trait like Auto-haste or Strength+10%. A lot of them are situational, and many of them are useless (Deprotect resistence +30%? wtf?). You could easily go through a game like FFXIII with just some basic HP+ or damage+ accessories. Armor on the other hand focuses on defense and upgrading thoughout the game. Level 1 armor will probably not make it easy for you when you face hard-hitting bosses. Certain armors also come with bonuses making a tradeoff of defense vs. bonus possible. It requires a lot more active management of equipment and I like that about it.